Since then, the indicator interface was changed for 12.10 & 13.04. However, the maintainer has not released a version since then for later Ubuntu versions. No code commits in the launchpad PPA has been made since first quarter 2013.

Thus I have forked the project, fixed a few bugs and made it available for 14.04 Trusty users. Feel free to check out the code on GitHub and help out with the maintenance.

internet up

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how to for 14.04

It requires an indicator from my PPA together with a custom ping test script:

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